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- From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Mixed format addresses
- Message-ID: <1gh3crINNjao@gaia.ucs.orst.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 04:43:07 GMT
- Article-I.D.: gaia.1gh3crINNjao
- Organization: Oregon State University, College of Oceanography
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- In article <Bz828H.BoC@cs.psu.edu> fenner@snobol.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
- >In article <1gg7eeINNfve@gaia.ucs.orst.edu> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
- >|For someone who is adamant that nothing in the UUCP maps could possibly
- >|apply to Internet sites, why this sudden compulsion that MX records
- >|must apply to UUCP sites?
- >
- >I didn't say anything about MX records applying to UUCP sites. I said that
- >the original design goal of the DNS was that everyone would have a domain
- >name.
-
- Including UUCP sites. Register in the .us domain and get an MX record, I
- believe, is your opinion of the entire problem of gatewaying to UUCP. If
- not, it is a very close approximation.
-
- >|>Using the DNS, I have no need to store any information about anyone on
- >|>my computer; I can just look it up.
- >|
- >|And just, pray tell, if you keep no information about anyone in your
- >|computer, who do you talk to to look it up?
- >
- >Ever so sorry; I need to store one IP address of a name server.
-
- One IP address for a gateway.
-